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Security News Update for Week Ending August 2, 2024

State Dept. Says UN Cybercrime Treaty Must protect Human Rights On the eve of final negotiations at the UN for a long awaited cybercrime treaty, the US says they are focused on ensuring the treaty protects human rights. The US, along with 40 other countries — not including, Surprise, Russia or China — signed off […]

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Security News Update for Week Ending July 26, 2024

Google Rolls back Decision to Kill Third Party Cookies Firefox and Safari, along with some other smaller browsers already block third party cookies by default. Google said that they would do the same. Google now says that phasing out third party cookies will hurt their revenue stream, uh, will impact online advertising, so they are […]

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CrowdStrike Losses Not Covered By Insurance

In light of last week’s IT disaster, now would be a good time to review your cyber insurance policy. According to Parametrix, who does this for a living, just for US Fortune 500 companies, the cost from the CrowdStrike disaster is going to be more than $5 billion. In fairness, the Fortune 500 collectively have […]

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The CrowdStrike Meltdown – The Rest of the Story

CrowdStrike is a major vendor of user workstation security software used by many Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. On Friday, they caused a major meltdown of Windows workstations across the globe. CrowdStrike insists that this was simply a software update gone wrong and maybe that is true. But there are plenty of conspiracy theorists […]

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Security News Update for Week Ending July 19, 2024

AT&T is First Company To Evade SEC’s 4 Day Breach Disclosure No, they are not badasses, they asked for permission. The SEC rules that went into effect last year have a carve out from the disclosure rule – actually it is not an exception, just a delay. It is not clear who asked whom, but […]

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